1.A Vision, Mission & Principles

Leo Perkins -

Vision

A sustainable life

It is Biotao's belief that sustainablility can be achieved in our lifetime. We recognise that achieving this has significant challenges for individuals and organisations. There are many generations of inertia in the ways that we have been doing things that have been unsustainable. It is challenging to change this and yet the result of not doing so is critical to our existence as a species.

Biotao seeks to meet this challenge with the principles of;

  • Deeper understanding of the problems, their root causes,
  • Nudging systems, processes and people to progressively more sustainable solutions, and
  • Offering products and services that support individuals and organisations to make the sustainable option the easy one.

Purpose

Biotao was established to;

Act for the natural environment to encourage

  • Natural environment regeneration and reintergration in areas disturbed by human interaction in a way that provides symbiotic balance between the natural environment and human sustainability.
  • The removal, sustainable decontamination and processing of human pollution.

Principles

Biotao as an organisation lives by principles of reason and virtues. Biotao is one with the people of its organisation and as such its people must also live by these same principles of logic, reason and virtues.

The virtues of biotao are;

  • Sophia - is Wisdom as to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight.
  • Andreia - is Courage as the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, and intimidation.
  • Dikaiosyne - is Justice as the moderation between selfishness and selflessness in proportional reciprocity.
  • Sophrosyne - is Temperance as the moderation and voluntary self-restraint through forgiveness, humility, prudence, and self-regulation.

The virtues are to be applied as a unified view by the individual and therefore the organisation.